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DeCOSMOS said he did not s the force of the proposed additi| The Government of the Dominion the Chief Engineer, and tho Acti^ Engineer, and, if the Gt)vernraent acted upon their advice, it would J seen from a review of their reports Mr. MACKENZIE : It is not tied sary that the amendment should! made. I shall bring down all pap in the Department having referencd the matter. Mb. DEWDNEY said, that he, the case, he would not inflict on Government the reading of a letter he had had the honoui-ofaddp ing to the hon. the Minister of Ful Works, as he promised that woul(i| brought down ^ith' the other pap He thought there might have been ot^ papers which had leid the Governt eing indented vit| lilway, from the rai| iaces of the Doq>| bonra on the outei would be exceec) iiCicuIties of navifti | saohing the Mainlai n be aToided." (parent to everi lae that the Chif ive recommende i raser Eiver rout oy considered thi ave cost a larp: obably $50,Q00 ( ^t they $h9dld )f every d6cumei| ight, not merclj ), but on the can He, thercforl a. laid be consideri| ) the House Bbou| information wi| , and he, therefoil ) the resolutioi reports or othp id the Govornm^ tion survey uni ire that there W(| the hands of ;he reports of these might hai 1 iufluonciDg tl ^orks to order t| :8 asked for thof [ in the resoluti(| said he did not i proposed additif the Dominion ', and the Actii Q Grovernment dvice, it would? of their reports.; E : It is not ned tndment Bhould| aj down all pap^l taring reference^ said, that not inflict on eading of a ehonoui'ofaddr Minister of Fui ised that wouldl ' the other pap^ gkt have been ot ed the Govern ni tjo'take thb course they had ; but ho could not see why his hon. friend the tttbttbtir for Victoria (Mr, DeOosmos) shbu fd 6bjeCt to th* survey. Some few years ago the hon. memoor said : • " donfpderation on proper terms will give uB popnlation ; will give irs means to emploj labonr pemuneratiTely ; will, enlarge our com- merce. &Pd buildup our industry. If it gives us public workd, if it gives us a'railroad from a point oh the FraSer, below Yale, to Savona's Ferry on Lake Kaniloops, and if we connect Lake Okanagan with the SpelmacUeea River by railway, which :b only about thirteen niiles, not only will the whole country, from Osoyoos lake, on the boundary, befaina the Cascades, be opened, up and. coiiuected with our chief commercial city, with a cheap and speedy means of transportation, but alt this tract of country, traversed by the railways and lake communication, will bo utilized in producing wheat and wool and other articles for export- ation. Victoria then will be built up, and will be the chief commercial city of British Columbia, with all other parts of the colony tributary to her. This is what Confederation on proper terms would do for us. These wore the Views of the hoi>. gen- tleman some years ago with regard to the Fraset* Eiver route, and he was sorry to see him now so bitterly op- posed to even a survey being made of that route. The hon. gentleman had now spoken about the estimates of last year in the reports of the cost of the different routes, and had stated that the Burrard Inlet route was estimated to cost two millions more than the Bute Inlet route. He (Mr. Dewdney) be- lieved — in fact he knew, that a report had already como down, and would be laid down before the House, he be- lieved, before very long, that would show a very different state of affairs. He found in the report of Mr. Marcus Smith the following in rogai*d to the location of the Fraser Eiver route : — " The proportion of excessively heavy work is estimated to extend over 67 miles, including an aggrefpite of 7 to 8 miles of tunnelling. I do not think it probable that a better survey w ^d materially alter this estimate." He was glad to see a report brought